Until recently, the configuration of the planets in our Solar System was considered to be similar to that during its formation. This “quiet” picture of the Solar System formation started changing 20 years ago, when the first extrasolar planet was…

Are we alone in the Universe or is their life on other planets? To answer this question we first need to find planets beyond our own Solar system. Dr Ken Rice, from the University of Edinburgh discussed how new planets…

40th Anniversary of the Moon Landings Special Event Do you know that Dundee is at the cutting-edge of space exploration? The Space Technology Centre at the University of Dundee is a world leader in writing software will help with future…

Forty eight years of searches for radio emissions from advanced civilisations have found nothing. The searches are getting much more powerful and it also seems more and more likely that there are other Earths like our own. But the Fermi…